James Marshall HillFirst LieutenantB CO, 588TH ENG BN, 79TH ENG GRP, 20TH ENG BDE, USARV Army of the United States 31 March 1941 - 15 February 1968 Oak Grove, Louisiana Panel 39E Line 048 |
 
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You served with my father during the war and when I was younger he took me to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. to find your name. He told me how the two of you had switched jeep positions so that you could be in the front of a convoy to get some pictures of Vietnam as you were driving. A drive that would take you to the airport and eventually home, as your tour had ended. But it was a flight that you would never catch. Were it not for you being in the lead vehicle, it would have been my father who was killed instead. And if that had happened, I would never have come to be. So in a sense, your life and my life are connected. Connected in a strange, convoluted way that only a war could create. Thank you, Lt. Hill. Thank you for your service to your country, and thank you for allowing others the opportunity to live.
Tim Adkison |
A Note from The Virtual WallB Company, 588th Engineers, lost four men to an ambush on 15 Feb 1968 -
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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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